The early afternoon summer sun reflected off the lake onto my ceiling and danced on my desk. The front door to my little bachelor cottage…
Posts published in “Essays”
I'm an atheist. There, I've said it. You want to make something of it? I know a guy who's a bit of a bible-thumper. He's…
One of the most heated debates in the recall election centers on whether or not illegal immigrants should have California driver's licenses, with detractors of…
Alexander Cockburn and Bruce Anderson, legitimate recipients of mailings from the American Association of Retired People, hiked the arduously magnificent Sinkyone Wilderness Trail last weekend…
A one sentence blurb in California Travelers' Trivia attracted my attention: "The small hamlet (Rough and Ready) seceded from the Union in 1850 and did…
Douglas Scott Hirscher, the man involved in the deadly four-car accident on Highway 128 near Yorkville on December 1, 2002, has pled no contest to…
Friday, after a light breakfast of fruit, I packed my backpack, tied on a sleeping bag and headed up the River until today, Monday. Creek,…
Is it growth or is it cancer? Whichever it may be, we want it, and elected officials and their would-be replacements are out in force…
I stand before you a humbled man. Last Sunday I was out trolling for salmon with Mike the Rookie and showing him how to tie…
JULY 22ND is my birthday, and if any of you say, "I knew you were a Cancer!" you are permanently prohibited from reading this newspaper.…
June of 1977 there was uncertainty about the future of the mill in Fort Bragg. At that time it had been in operation for over…